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\"yacht<\/a>… a nautical afternoon this afternoon. It seems that every man and his dog were out there doing some kind of maritime activity this afternoon.<\/p>\n

So while you admire the yacht that went sailing by the headland at the Pointe du Roc this afternoon, I finished writing my notes last night, only to find that I couldn’t go off to sleep. In the end I gave it up as a bad job and carried on working on clearing duplicates out of the back-up drive.<\/p>\n

It was after 01:30 when I finally went off to bed, which was not what I was planning on at all with an alarm call at 06:00 and a Welsh lesson on Zoom later in the morning.
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\"trawler<\/a>And while you admire another image of a trawler sailing past the headland towards the harbour in the wake of the yacht that we have just seen, I went to find out where I’d been during the night.<\/p>\n

And a very welcome return to Zero who a couple of years ago used to accompany me on my travels on quite a regular basis but hasn’t been around for a while.<\/p>\n

Last night I was taking her to a football match but it was the middle of the winter so we were putting on layers of clothes. She was dressed in a big heavy coat. When it was time to go I found that I was dressed in some kind of yellow thermal tights but I’d forgotten to put on my trousers so I had to go back. That was annoying because I’d been urging her to hurry up and now she was ready, I wasn’t. Her father wasn’t all that keen on her going – I don’t know if it was because of me or because of the football but her mother was fine with the idea.
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This morning, I wasn’t feeling anything like working. It was all that I could do to keep awake and I was really surprised that I’d even managed to crawl out of bed. As a result I was totally unprepared for my Welsh lesson and it didn’t pass very well at all. Most of the time was spent trying to keep awake.<\/p>\n

It was a very late lunch too. Our Welsh lesson overran. I was ready for my sandwiches too by the time that we stopped. And to my dismay, the apples that I’d bought the other day haven’t survived.<\/p>\n

After lunch I came in to start work but I fell asleep instead. And I was out for about an hour, comfortable on the chair in the office. That was disappointing but it wasn’t a surprise.<\/p>\n

\"plat<\/a>My afternoon walk wasn’t disturbed by neighbours or shopping too, but by a flat battery in the NIKON D500<\/a>. As I went to take a photo of the people out on the Plat Gousset it just petered out.<\/p>\n

And so I had to dash back into the apartment where I grabbed hold of the old NIKON D3000<\/a> and swap over the camera lens and then dash back out again for my photos.<\/p>\n

And when I say “old” NIKON D3000<\/a> I do mean “old” as well. It was an end-of-series discontinued range that I bought in a hurry in QUEBEC IN MAY 2012<\/a> after I dropped the NIKON D5000<\/a>\"\" on a concrete floor and cracked the casing.<\/p>\n

And to my surprise, it’s kept on going after all this and still producing some kind of acceptable results.
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\"men<\/a>As I mentioned earlier, we were having a nautical afternoon today.<\/p>\n

Regular readers of this rubbish will recall that last summer we were seeing here and there a bright yellow zodiac roaring around offshore. We seem to be in luck, or maybe it’s a sign that the summer is here, because the zodiac is back out there offshore.<\/p>\n

There are two guys in there fishing – or, at least – one of the two guys is fishing. The second one is fixing his fishing line ready to cast off out to sea.<\/p>\n

And I suppose that we’ll be back as we have been every year since I’ve been living here, watching hundreds of people fishing and catching nothing whatever at all.
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There was nothing else doing out to sea off the end of the Pointe du Roc, so I walked around the corner to the viewpoint over the port.<\/p>\n

\"fishing<\/a>You have probably noticed that the tide was quite a way in so the outer harbour is flooded.<\/p>\n

We saw earlier one of the trawlers coming back into port and here is another one coming into the port, one of the crustacean boats with the roof over the hold to keep the seagulls from stealing the catch. There’s already one of the boats there at the Fish Processing Plant unloading its catch.<\/p>\n

The two fishing boats that have been moored there for the past couple of days here seem to have moved on today, but the same four boats in the chantier navale<\/em> are still there, and look as if they are going to be there for a while as well.
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\"thora<\/a>A new arrival in the port today though is Thora<\/em>, one of the two Jersey freighters.<\/p>\n

They seem to be finding plenty of work going on right now and that’s good news for the port. We need all of the business that we can find.<\/p>\n

Back here at the apartment I had my coffee and coffee cake and finally settled down to do some work. I’ve managed to edit 20-odd photos this afternoon, some of which involved doing some research and involved the help of a few people in a Group on a Social Networking site who were able to identify a twisting pile of metal as a Bedford JSL.<\/p>\n

Such is the power of the internet.
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During a few pauses here and there I’ve been going through the duplicate files on the back-up drive and what with last night’s “overtime” and the bits and pieces that I’ve done today, I now have 927GB free. But of course, the farther ahead that I advance, the slower the work becomes.<\/p>\n

There was the hour on the guitars of course, and then a hurried tea – stuffed peppers with rice and the last of the jam pie- because there was football on the internet again – Barry Town v Penybont in the JD Cymru League.<\/p>\n

It’s easy to see why there seem to be three clubs – TNS, Bala Town and Connah’s Quay Nomads – way out in front of the League because this match was really pretty aimless.<\/p>\n

These two teams are fourth and fifth, and Penybont won the match with a deflected shot out of nothing from 20 yards, but apart from that neither team ever looked like doing anything. Long, aimless balls out of defence and plenty of misplaced passes, quite a contrast to the skill that was clearly evident on Saturday when TNS played Bala Town.<\/p>\n

There’s a huge gap in skill between the top three and those following on behind at quite a distance.<\/p>\n

Right now though I’m off to bed. I won’t have a long sleep tonight, thanks to the football, so I probably won’t be on form tomorrow either. But we’ll see how we go. At least the backlog of photos seems to be shifting and that’s something to appreciate, I suppose.<\/p>\n

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